Gina Rinehart, an Australian billionaire mining tycoon who
inherited her fortune, stated that the key to economic success for
Australians is to cut labor costs to compete with Africans who “are
willing to work for less than $2 a day.” Rinehart earns $600 a second
from her mining company, BBC reported. WORLD -2

Eight ways to try something new without feeling phony

“Pretentious” is a dirty word — we call it an effort to
be perceived favorably by our peers by practicing unnatural behavior.
Does the fear of seeming hoity-toity mean we should avoid all the finer
things in life? Fall in Cincinnati is full of happenings that could be
called cavalier, but there’s nothing wrong with test-driving the
highfalutin life — just because you can.

How romantic: A wealthy Russian businessman decided to
test his fiancée-to-be’s love before popping the question by staging his
own death, saying, “I wanted her to realise how empty her life would be
without me and how life would have no meaning without me.” WORLD -2

A 10-year-old distraught over smoothie company Jamba
Juice’s use of giant Styrofoam cups created a Change.org petition to end
Styrofoam usage, garnering more than 130,000 signatures and a call from
corporate Jamba promising to phase out the stuff by 2013. WORLD +2